The Bpm war continues on several fronts. First of all, the battle in Piazza Affari has suddenly rekindled. The stock is currently traveling with an abundant 5% rise: in sixteen sessions Bpm has recovered more than 50%. But who buys? Matteo Arpe, in his speech at inaugural road show in via Bezzi guaranteed that neither he nor Sator bought a title; Andrea Bonomi, on the contrary, not only has already reached 2,63% but has announced that he wants to bring the 10% threshold closer. It is easy to deduce that he is certainly one of the buyers.
But, paradoxically, the clash between the virtual fences of the Stock Exchange is the least relevant aspect of the clash between the Amici list, entrenched in defense of the institute's self-control, and the Fabi and Fiba-Cisl lists, which in the clash the confederal secretary Raffaele Bonanni himself engaged. In this key, the novelty of the day is undoubtedly the torpedo arriving from Consob, which has so far remained on the sidelines (or under water) in a game played above all by the Supervision of the Bank of Italy. Yesterday, after the general manager Enzo Chiesa went to the Rome offices to address the issue of the prospectus for the future capital increase, Giuseppe Vegas' commission asked the board of directors and the board of statutory auditors of the bank by letter for "further details" on the document internal career secret.
The board of directors of the bank, in this regard, is set for 18 October. Therefore, the answers will arrive in time for the shareholders' meeting scheduled for the 22nd. of the TUF. And the nature of the relationship between the list of Friends and that of Andrea Bonomi's Investindustrial also remains under the scrutiny of the Vegas inspectors to verify whether the "concert" does not exist, as one may reasonably suspect.
On the political level, then, the intervention of Vegas, a close collaborator of Giulio Tremonti at the Ministry of the Economy, indicates that the star of Massimo Ponzellini (who continues to minimize, both in interviews and in missions to the Bank of Italy, the tears in governance) is now drawing to a close. With a certain embarrassment for his political sponsors, the League and the minister in the lead.
But this, by now, is a marginal chapter of the electoral game that involves half of Italy. The road show of Marcello Messori and Matteo Arpe is heading south, i.e. towards the branches of the Center and those in Puglia. The "caravan" of the Friends does the reverse: debut in Foggia with the resident candidate Fillppo Annunziata, stop in Bologna and grand finale at the Milan Convention.
